Museum Department Builds a Relational Index for Contemporary Graphic Design
Museum Department serves as a digital archive for web design, cataloging contemporary graphic design, type foundries, fonts, and studios through a relational database. It illustrates connections between studios, projects, designers, type foundries, fonts, locations, and various creative fields. For instance, exploring Dinamo presents the foundry’s profile along with highlighted projects that utilize its typefaces. Users can conduct location-based searches, such as for Stockholm, uncovering studios like Stockholm Design Lab and Letters from Sweden. Navigation is facilitated by keyboard shortcuts like CMD + K, while studio pages feature case studies, interviews, and mixtapes. Unlike typical design blogs, this project offers permanent entries for artifacts in a streamlined interface. The complete index and directory can be accessed on Museum Department.
Key facts
- Museum Department is a web design archive covering contemporary graphic design, type foundries, fonts, and studios
- The platform is structured as a relational index linking studios, projects, designers, foundries, fonts, locations, and disciplines
- Project pages show the studio behind the work and the typefaces used, linked to their originating foundries
- Foundry profiles such as Dinamo list featured projects using their typefaces
- Individual type cuts like ABC Arizona Serif display design history and cross-referenced case studies
- Searching Stockholm surfaces studios and foundries in the Swedish capital, including Stockholm Design Lab and Letters from Sweden, with a Sweden-level index
- Navigation uses keyboard shortcuts including CMD + K for search
- Studio pages gather case studies, interviews, and curated mixtapes
Entities
Institutions
- Museum Department
- Dinamo
- Stockholm Design Lab
- Letters from Sweden
Locations
- Stockholm
- Sweden